Anika's Last Update, Anika will be PTS Today. #114 Posted on Cat Memorial Section

[Emeraldgreen]

I went through your thread again and saw that early on you mentioned that the vet said Anika had bad breath. I think that you've mentioned a few times that her teeth are fine but I wonder if she might have an oral ulcer? If it was located under the tongue or at the back of the throat it might have been missed by the vet. That could account for the difficulty in swallowing and drooling and oral ulcers can cause bad breath. And could make it too painful to eat food.

Mouth ulcers can be from lots of different things including kidney problems. But I didn't read anything about the blood work showing anything regarding kidneys. I did find some stuff on the internet about liver disease and drooling.

And as a few other pt'rs mentioned, it could be nausea. Drooling can be caused by nausea. I don't think ulcers would cause vomiting but nausea sure might.

If your vet doesn't find any ulcers in Anika's mouth and if the ultrasound doesn't show anything new, maybe you could try an anti-nausea medicine and it might help her to be able to eat.

If the injections are stressful, maybe you could ask your vet about a single injection that last for two weeks called Convenia. It is in the amoxicillan family so it might be able to replace the daily amoxi shots you are giving. I don't know about the Baytril though.

I hope you will be able to get some fluids into her. Prayers going out for you and Anika.

[Catty1]

{{{{{hugs}}}}} Melissa, I wish there was something I could do.

I know you and hubby aren't vets...but maybe have a look in her mouth and see if there is anything obvious, like an ulcer?

If you have an eyedropper, drop water into the side of her mouth through the back teeth. Maybe have it lukewarm so the cold doesn't startle her.

PT PRAYERS FOR ANIKA!

[Anikaca77]

I have looked in her mouth, I think from the start when I found out she wasn't eating I checked her teeth because she had the 2 pulled earlier this year and I thought maybe she had an infection or something but everything looked normal to me.

Yes I noticed the bad breath on Anika as well, I'm not sure if she still has it or not because it's a fight now just to try to get her to take some liquids which we have to do.

She's managed to keep the liquids down for the most part and I'm only giving her a small quantity of water and sometimes chicken broth. The only thing that was really weird was last night when I was sleeping Anika woke me up by throwing up. I got up with her and she threw up this foam stuff and that was odd because I wasn't even trying to feed her or anything I was just sleeping.

Luckily she hasn't done it since 1 a.m. and since then she's had water and kept it down.

Yeah the vet even said that she probably has some nausea but I'm just hoping to continue the liquid every couple of hours and just keep it going till I call the vets first thing Monday morning.

Thank you all again,
Melissa